Centennial "Health Features"
The Office of Public Information of the Pan American Health Organization is producing weekly "health features" to be distributed starting January 2002. These features may be used by newspapers, magazines, and other publications, free of charge.
The featured subjects are:
AIDS: current situation and future outlook.
Aging population: what does the future hold?
Animal/veterinary public health: why it is important to humans and what PAHO does.
Bioethics: what does it mean for the Americas?
Mental health: it's a problem everywhere, but it can be dealt with.
Cervical cancer: rates are highest in the Americas; PAHO, with Gates grant seeks to cut them.
Cholera comes back: 1991 marks start of first epidemic in 20th Century.
Dengue returns: how eradication failed, and implications for future.
Blood Safety: new initiative aims to make all blood for transfusion free of disease.
Women, health and development: why is a special program important?
PAHO Centers: nine of them deal with important topics.
Tuberculosis: the Captain of all these men of death.
Childhood immunization: the most cost-effective health intervention?
PAHO Commemorates World Health Day with the slogan: `Move for Health'
Cardiovascular disease: why is it a problem in Latin America.
Disasters: why SUMA is becoming a household name and helping countries cope.
Poliomyelitis: Eradicated From the Americas, On Its Way to Global Eradication.
Democracy and health: PAHO's initiative to link the two.
Reproductive health: PAHO's drive to reduce maternal mortality.
Public health: what does that really mean?
Tobacco kills more than a million people a year in the Americas: can we reduce the death toll?
World No-Tobacco Day Focuses on Tobacco-Free Sports
Environmental health: water and sanitation reaches millions with PAHO's help.
Drug abuse: why the problem continues to grow in the Americas.
Equity and Panamericanism: PAHO's fundamental tenets.
Yellow fever: it was a major triumph and historic focus, but could it come back to the cities?
Life expectancy: why does a baby born in Haiti live so many less years than one born in Uruguay?
Vaccines: what do we have now and what's in the pipeline?
Healthy tourism program helps Caribbean.
Nutrition: why are so many poor people overweight?
Latin Americans and Caribbeans know little about blood donation, study shows
Indigenous health: why is it so different, and what is PAHO doing?
Health research: PAHO's innovative research coordination program.
Malaria: eradication failed; how is control going?
Healthy cities: municipalities vie for distinction as a health city.
Violence: a major public health problem but some approaches to reduce it work.
Border Health: PAHO's El Paso Office brings together health officials from U.S., Mexico.
More resources needed to vaccinate 95 percent of all children
Water: the key to life, and PAHO's role in supplying it.
Disaster prevention: how PAHO's program came to be known worldwide.
Food protection/safety: foodborne disease hits millions every year, but it's easily preventable.
Disease prevention and control: what does it mean for the Americas.
Measles: it kills 1 million children a year, but PAHO plans to wipe it out.
The Dengue Burden: Analyzing its Social, Economic and Epidemiological Trends
Epidemiology: on site with PAHO's disease detectives.
Healthy Children, Goal 2002: Saving 100,000 children whom would die without the IMCI program.
Health promotion: what innovative approaches really work?
Health is a human right, but where is the equity?
Non-communicable diseases: what is this "double burden" for Latin American countries.
Disease eradication success: smallpox gone from the Americas in 1973.
Disease eradication success: polio gone from the Americas in 1991.
Health days: there's one for everything, from AIDS to TB.
Newly emerging diseases: why are we seeing them now?
Vaccines: what do we have now and what's in the pipeline?
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